www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210429-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1619804136
“The state’s two major water projects, the California State Water Project and the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project, have for three decades, been unable to supply the local water district contractors, both in urban and agricultural areas, with the water they annually request.
“Over the last 30 years, California’s water demand has increased as irrigated agricultural lands, population, and environmental considerations have grown. However, California’s water supplies and developed surface storage have remained relatively constant during those 30 years. This disparity has created a gap between available supplies and water demands in most years.”
From this week’s Feature
A Note To Readers
I would like you to especially read this week’s Feature: The California Water System and Crisis. The report is both an overview of the state’s water supply, deliveries of water, and, importantly it demonstrates that the state has been unable to deliver even the requested amounts of water by water districts for the past 30 years. That may come as a shock to some, as the public awareness of the water shortages in the state is a recent years phenomenon. But it would not surprise those of fifty years ago, who forecast exactly that this would be the result unless, beginning in the 1960s, the U.S. government and the state of California began, immediately, two projects that would ensure the state’s, and the entire continent’s water supply for a century to come.
Those two projects I have covered here in recent weeks, and will provide more coverage over the weeks ahead. Just to remind readers, those projects were: The North American Water and Power Alliance and the President Kennedy project of building nuclear-powered desalination plants.
President John Kennedy and California Water– San Luis Reservoirhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOd4m0fCJ0s
Also in this week’s report:
The past few week’s I have posted in these reports a multitude of coverage of the California and Western States drought and megadrought. This week will continue that practice, but will cut-back on the number of articles included. After all, sometimes it is too much.
With the drought ravaging the entirety of the western states and the mid-west, we must include at least some coverage of the the Colorado River Basin. Under the title, “On the Colorado River,” are a couple of articles. Recall, that the Colorado River Basin provides water for 40 million people in half-a-dozen states, has never been in the situation it presently is in. The Lake Mead Reservoir is now lower than it was since it began to fill in the 1930s.
That will cover our megadrought for this week.
The rest of this week’s report are some healthy articles from the LaRouche PAC on rebuilding the nation’s industrial and productive capability and the exciting developments on Mars as the Ingenuity helicopter today made its fourth flight.
